Toast is hiring a

Principal Software Engineer

Remote

About Toast

Now, more than ever, the Toast team is committed to our customers. Our focus is on building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.

 

Who We Are

The Websites team is responsible for advancing and supporting Toast’s new restaurant website hosting product, as well as working closely with the integrated Online Ordering product/team. This group is highly product oriented, with a laser-focus on creating top tier consumer experiences for restaurants and their guests. Our product-line is relatively new but already used by millions of restaurant goers each day, so be prepared to innovate on products at a huge scale while ensuring stability and scalability.

 

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

You will be in a unique position to work on a variety of different projects and have a strong voice in technology and product strategy. In this opportunity you will be looked-to by the team as the most senior technical contributor, and also expected to steer the group during challenging architectural and design decisions. This position is an exceptional opportunity for a smart, hands dirty, entrepreneurial engineer who wants to work with a smart team, modern stack, and solve real business problems via technology. As such you should be prepared to run experiments and iterate quickly. Responsibilities include:

 

  • Lead the evolution of our Websites product, delivering scalable solutions that have significant business impact
  • Drive continuous improvement of architecture, codebase and technical practice
  • Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, inclusivity, and engineering excellence
  • Set a bar for productivity and code quality with your contributions to the product
  • Build and maintain strong partnerships across lines of business, aligning technical solutions with strategic objectives.
  • Total commitment to being a great teammate

 

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Qualities & Essential Skills)

  • 10+ years of experience developing fullstack web applications
  • Working knowledge of JS frameworks such as React
  • Working knowledge of CSS and frameworks such as Tailwind, Bootstrap, or similar
  • Working knowledge of backend technologies like Node.js, Java, and Kotlin
  • Experience building on top AWS services with other tools like Docker, and Git
  • Familiarity implementing designs provided by high-fidelity UX mocks in Figma, Sketch, etc. 
  • Experience shipping and maintaining testable code bases, including API design and unit-testing frameworks
  • Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
  • Ability to embrace the agile mindset and understand that sometimes we need to ship features quickly and clean up the code later.
  • Comfortable with testing methodologies and frameworks

 

Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

 

*Bread puns encouraged but not required

#LI-Remote

 

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits.
Pay Range
$182,000$291,000 USD

 

We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].

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